BURLINGTON, Massachusetts -- May 23, 2012 -- OpenLink Software,
the technology innovation leader in high-performance and secure
data access, integration, and management technology, today
announced immediate availability of its latest data access and
connectivity middleware for public and private big data spaces. The
new technology provides existing Web or ODBC-compliant applications
with transparent access to data across enterprise databases and
publicly accessible big data spaces such as: Facebook, Twitter,
Google+, LinkedIn, and many others. In a nutshell, this technology
provides desktop productivity tools, application development tools
and frameworks, and Web Services with transparent access to
disparate data sources using familiar patterns of RDBMS backend
access and interaction.

Web Scale Database Connectivity and Big Data Challenge

Agility is the timeless pursuit of enterprises and individuals
alike. In all cases, access, integration, and dissemination of data
is pivotal. In recent times, the integration of the Internet and
World Wide Web (Web) into our daily activities has lead to
exponential growth in the volume, velocity, heterogeneity, and
dispersion of data as expressed via the industry-wide 'Big Data'
meme. As a consequence, tactical insight discovery and
dissemination is becoming harder to achieve, within ever decreasing
decision-making time-frames.

"ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET are powerful tools for redistributing
data from enterprise RDBMS-driven line-of-business applications,
but inadequate for Big Data scenarios where data structure
heterogeneity is endemic," said Kingsley Idehen, Founder and CEO,
OpenLink Software. "Virtuoso's Open Data Connectivity prowess takes
the conceptual virtues of RDBMS-oriented connectivity to new
heights by enabling existing ODBC-, JDBC-, ADO.NET-, and OLE
DB-compliant applications to seamlessly tap into the vastness of
Web-scale Big Data sources. As has been the case for the last
twenty years, our product focus is a direct reflection of our
passion, innovation, and leadership at OpenLink Software," he
added.

Conclusion

RDBMS technology no longer defines the apex of the data access,
integration, and management value pyramid. Web-accelerated Big Data
is now the biggest impediment to individual and enterprise agility
pursuits. As would be expected, OpenLink's data access and
connectivity technology has evolved to embrace the reality of the
Big Data challenge by providing a solution that empowers existing
ODBC-compliant applications while also providing a powerful data
access solution for Web and/or Mobile applications and
services.

Product Availability and Pricing

As always, current versions of Virtuoso are available for
immediate download and free evaluation. ODBC-based SQL/SPARQL
access via Virtuoso's ODBC driver for the Linked Open Data Cloud
and World Wide Web is free across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux,
Solaris, FreeBSD, etc. Access is rate-limited, with an option to
acquire licenses for increased access rates or to commission your
own Virtuoso server instances in the cloud, enterprise data center,
workgroup, or individual setup.

Through July 31st, 2012, all commercial licenses for Virtuoso
are available on a special offer basis placing entry-level
Workstation license at $499, and offering significant savings for
all deployments through to the highest-end, enterprise-grade
Cluster Edition.

About OpenLink Software

OpenLink Software is a privately held software company with
offices in the USA and the United Kingdom. It has been the leading
provider and technology innovator in the universal data access
middleware market since 1993, and over 10,000 companies currently
use its products worldwide.